frozen

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adj

Definition: stopped
Antonyms: continual, continued, fluid, moving

adj

Definition: very cold
Antonyms: boiled, boiling, heated, hot, melted, thawed, warm

IN BRIEF: adj. - Turned into ice adj. - Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; Not convertible to cash; (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; Devoid of warmth and cordiality; Not thawed.

Architecture is frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

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Being frozen in a dream has a range of possible meanings, from feeling emotionally or sexually cold to simply feeling that one is unable to do something different from whatever one is doing. We also speak about "frozen assets" and waiting until "hell freezes over."

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Said of material kept at less than 0°C. Biological materials are frozen solid because of their high water content.

• f. embryo — see embryo transfer.
• f. meat — meat preserved at low temperatures in a freezer.
• f. section — a specimen of tissue that has been quick-frozen, cut by microtome, and stained immediately for rapid diagnosis of possible malignant lesions. A specimen processed in this manner is not satisfactory for detailed study of the cells, but it is valuable because it is quick and gives the surgeon immediate information regarding the malignancy of a piece of tissue.
• f. semen — see semen.

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